Summary
Chad Roberts is a Cyber Security Engineer with nine years of focused experience automating threat detection, observability, and incident response across enterprise SIEM and MDR environments. He has led SIEM engineering and security automation at major organizations—designing parsers, integrations, and automation playbooks that bridge product capabilities with operational needs. Comfortable both in the SOC and in product development, he’s shipped detection content, vulnerability tracking systems, and internal MDR automation while influencing roadmap and technical vision. His career blends hands-on engineering (ArcSight, ELK, Python, McAfee, Tanium) with leadership roles that scaled global security operations and resiliency. Based in Coos Bay, Oregon, he pursues creative security use cases and publishes under the handle "deathbywedgie," reflecting a playful, curious approach to serious technical problems. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex telemetry into actionable automation and repeatable, auditable security workflows.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
Computer Science, Computer Science at Dallas College Mountain View Campus
Computer Science, Computer Science at North Central Texas College